Valuing Historic Environments
Valuing Historic Environments

Author: Lisanne Gibson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-02-17

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1317002644

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This volume brings together an interdisciplinary team of leading scholars to discuss frameworks of value in relation to the preservation of historic environments. Starting from the premise that heritage values are culturally and historically constructed, the book examines the effects of pluralist frameworks of value on how preservation is conceived. It questions the social and economic consequences of constructions of value and how to balance a responsive, democratic conception of heritage with the pressure to deliver on social and economic objectives. It also describes the practicalities of managing the uncertainty and fluidity of the widely varying conceptions of heritage.

Valuing Cultural Heritage
Valuing Cultural Heritage

Author: Ståle Navrud

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13:

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The use of non-market valuation methods has been growing over the past decades among those who seek to underline the value of the environment. Now, Navrud (environmental and resource economics, Agricultural U. of Norway) and Ready (environmental and natural resource economics, Pennsylvania State U., USA) argue that such techniques can be readily applied to "cultural heritage goods." After introducing the basic methods used in a couple of introductory chapters, they present 11 studies that attempt to value such cultural goods as Stonehenge, Bulgarian monasteries, aboriginal rock paintings in North America, and Roman Imperial remains near Naples. A final chapter reviews existing studies using non-market valuation techniques and suggests future research needs. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Past Meets Future
Past Meets Future

Author: Antoinette J. Lee

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 1995-07-19

Total Pages: 506

ISBN-13: 9780471144120

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Emanating from a special National Preservation Conference, leading experts present 33 essays on future trends in the historic preservation field. Topics range from cultural diversity to the future of American communities. This book will guide preservations and anyone concerned about our built environment into the next quarter century.

Conservation and Planning
Conservation and Planning

Author: Edward Hobson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003-10-30

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1134470509

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Conserving historic buildings continues to excite and inflame opinion. The means of protecting such buildings and areas are well established but frequently suffer a lack of wider understanding. Conservation and Planning takes a detailed look at the way these processes have evolved and their use today by policy makers and local decision makers. This book presents original research into how national and local decision-makers construct and implement conservation of the built environment. The findings in this book challenge many of the assumptions supporting conservation.

Human-Centered Built Environment Heritage Preservation
Human-Centered Built Environment Heritage Preservation

Author: Jeremy C. Wells

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-09-20

Total Pages: 769

ISBN-13: 0429014066

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Human-Centered Built Environment Heritage Preservation addresses the question of how a human-centred conservation approach can and should change practice. For the most part, there are few answers to this question because professionals in the heritage conservation field do not use social science research methodologies to manage cultural landscapes, assess historical significance and inform the treatment of building and landscape fabric. With few exceptions, only academic theorists have explored these topics while failing to offer specific, usable guidance on how the social sciences can actually be used by heritage professionals. In exploring the nature of a human-centred heritage conservation practice, we explicitly seek a middle ground between the academy and practice, theory and application, fabric and meanings, conventional and civil experts, and orthodox and heterodox ideas behind practice and research. We do this by positioning this book in a transdisciplinary space between these dichotomies as a way to give voice (and respect) to multiple perspectives without losing sight of our goal that heritage conservation practice should, fundamentally, benefit all people. We believe that this approach is essential for creating an emancipated built heritage conservation practice that must successfully engage very different ontological and epistemological perspectives.